Section 2

“authorized officer” means a social welfare officer or an officer appointed under section 12;

“care” includes protection, supervision, rehabilitation and training;

“care centre” means a residential care centre and a day care centre within the meaning of the Act;

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“day care centre” means, subject to section 3, any premises at which four or more persons are received for care for a continuous period exceeding three hours between the hours of sunrise and sunset in a day, and for at least three days in a week, whether for reward or otherwise; but in the case of premises operated or managed by a natural person, a person who is a relative of that person shall not be reckoned in determining the number of persons received at the premises for the purposes of this definition;

“Director General” means the Director General of Social Welfare,

Malaysia;

“operator”, in relation to a registered care centre, means the person on whose application it was registered;

“register” means the register of residential care centres or the register of day care centres, as the case may be, required to be kept under section 8;

“registered care centre” means a care centre registered under section 6;

“relative” means a legal guardian of the person concerned, or a person who, whether by consanguinity, affinity, or legal adoption, is to the person concerned, or stands in relation to the person concerned as, a parent, child, brother, sister, grandparent, grandchild, uncle, aunt, nephew, or niece;

“resident”, in relation to a residential care centre, means a person who has been received for care as a resident at the residential care centre;

“residential care centre” means, subject to section 3, any premises at which four or more persons are received for care as residents therein, whether for reward or otherwise; but in the case of premises operated or managed by a natural person, a person who is a relative of that person shall not be reckoned in determining the number of persons received at the premises for the purposes of this definition;

“State Director” means the Director of Social Welfare of a State and includes the Director of Social Welfare of the Federal Territory of

Kuala Lumpur, the Federal Territory of Labuan and the Federal

Territory of Putrajaya respectively.

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